Hotmounting eSATA drive

[Tony Nelson]

At 10:32 AM -0700 5/28/07, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>I have an external SATA drive that's usually powered off. It has two
>ext3 partitions, FWIW. I find that mount does not recognize the devices
>(/dev/sdb1, /dev/sdb2) unless the drive is powered on before booting.
>
>I expect that this is something that HAL should attend to. Any
>suggestions as to what's wrong? HAL works fine with other hot mounted
>devices.

It may not be HAL.  When you turn it on, does the device appear in the
dmesg log?  As Mikkel says, does it appear in /dev?  udevmonitor might help
here.  If it is a HAL issue, is "lshal -m" informative?
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